Black Paper : Writing in a Dark Time
Editorial University Of Chicago Press
Fecha de edición abril 2022 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780226641355
288 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa dura
Dimensiones 223 mm x 144 mm
Resumen del libro
"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black Paper he is writing at the peak of his skill, as he models how to be closely attentive to experience-to not just see and take in, but to think critically about what we are seeing and not seeing. Wide-ranging in their subject matter, the essays are connected by ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past.
Biografía del autor
Teju Cole (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1975) creció en Nigeria y en 1992 se estableció en Estados Unidos. Es escritor, fotógrafo e historiador del arte. Debutó en 2007 con la presente obra, a la que siguió Ciudad abierta (Acantilado , 2012), novela aclamada y galardonada con el Premio PEN/ Hemingway, el New York City Book Award for Fiction y el Premio Rosenthal de la American Academy of Arts and Letters. En la actualidad vive en Nueva York.
